The Economist did an interesting podcast on the containership and they spoke to me and a bunch of very cool people: https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2021/09/13/thinking-inside-the-box-the-story...
I can talk about the Suez Canal forever — and here I did! 😀 The Suez Canal Is a Lifeline for Global Capitalism AN INTERVIEW WITHLALEH KHALILI The Suez Canal blockage inspired a thousand meme...
https://thegamming.org/2021/03/30/interview-with-the-jacobin-about-the-suez-canal/
It was thrilling to be prepped to talk to Amy Goodman on DemocracyNow about Ever Given. Here is the interview video and transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2021/3/29/ever_given_suez_canal_gl...
https://thegamming.org/2021/03/30/talking-to-democracy-now-about-ever-given/
So on 23 March a massive 400-metre long ship, the Ever Given, blocked the Suez Canal. I wrote a piece for the Washington Post Monkey Cage blog about the event. Big ships were created to avoid rel...
https://thegamming.org/2021/03/30/a-short-op-ed-on-the-ever-given-blockage-of-the-suez-canal/
I was thrilled to publish a piece for the London Review of Books on China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Instead of wanting to look at it through the eyes of the Chinese or -more egregiously- US p...
https://thegamming.org/2021/03/11/a-review-essay-on-the-belt-and-road-initiative-in-the-lrb/
Conversations -formal and informal, over lunch or over Zoom- with Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi are always immensely fun: they are rich, go in unexpected directions and always invoke lots of new ideas,...
As always it is really fun to talk to Doug, given that he was a merchant marine in his youth, and he is a great conversationalist. We chatted for his Left Business Observer in early August and th...
https://thegamming.org/2020/09/01/interview-with-doug-henwood-for-kpfas-left-business-observer/
I was thrilled to see such a brilliant erudite review of the book by Harris Feinsod. All at Sea Surveying the watery expanses of the world economy By Harris Feinsod, 24 August 2020 Sinews of War ...
https://thegamming.org/2020/08/27/a-review-of-sinews-of-war-and-trade-in-the-baffler/
20 August 2020 I was honoured to be interviewed by my amazing colleague and comrade, Dr Katy Fox-Hodess (whose own work is also cited in my book and with whom I worked when we put together sinews...
This essay was originally published by e-Flux as part of their Oceans in Transformation series: https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/oceans/331863/shipping-oil/ Laleh Khalili Image from ship’s e...
https://thegamming.org/2020/07/03/e-flux-oceans-in-transformation-series-shipping-oil/